Brooklyn: Confraternity of the Precious Blood, 1952. 16mo (5 1/3 inches tall), original soft green leatherette, green endpapers, green silk ribbon marker. About-fine. THOMAS AQUINAS IN YOUR POCKET: "HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME IS PRESENTED THE MASTERPIECE OF ST. THOMAS--THE SUMMA THEOLOGICA--IN A POCKET EDITION" This was the first distillation... More about My Way of Life; Pocket edition of St. Thomas: The Summa Simplified for Everyone

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Small octavo, original half gray cloth and brown paper boards, original dust jacket, uncut. Very faint tanning to blank flyleaves, owner signature to front pastedown, closed tear and crease to upper front panel, laminate lifting in lower corner, small smudge to rear... More about Thomism; An Introduction

Bruxellis: Apud Ant. Collaer Bibliopolam, 1778. Second edition. Thin quarto (11 inches tall), twentieth-century full crushed tan morocco, front board decorated in blind with cathedral-style motif, with twin inlaid circular morocco window panes, gilt stamped signature on rear pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Binding and plates... More about Vita D. Thomae Aqvinatis; Othonis Vaeni Ingenio et Manu Delineata

Westminster: The Newman Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original mauve cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting and early owner signature to front pastedown and flyleaf, small blemish to top rear panel of largely fresh and clean dust jacket. A near-fine copy.6"The greatest English exponent of Thomism this century was Frederick C.... More about Contemporary Philosophy; Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism

Herder and Herder, 1967, 1969. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original gray and original black cloth, original dust jackets. Volume II Augustinianism) is mildly ex-library with only blank card pocket, and “Theology” written in ink, on the free front endpaper. A near-fine pair. Pair of first American editions of Henri... More about The Mystery of the Supernatural WITH Augustinianism and Modern Theology

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. First edition. Small octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature on free front endpaper, dust jacket with price struck through on front flap, toning to spine, wear to upper corners. An excellent copy. "HUMAN LAW CANNOT REPEAL ANY PART OF DIVINE LAW... More about St. Thomas Aquinas Theological Texts; Selected and Translated with Notes by Thomas Gilby

Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. First edition. Tall octavo, original maroon cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with a trace of edge-wear and typical toning to top of front panel, spine and flap folds. An excellent copy of a scarce book. "FOR THE MODERN RADICAL... More about After Virtue; A Study in Moral Theory

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First edition. Large octavo, original black cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. First edition of Flannery O'Connor's engaging letters, an essential component of her published body of work. It was easy for readers in the 1950s and early 60s... More about The Habit of Being; Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Dubuque, Iowa: The Priory Press, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original gold [mustard] cloth, original dust jacket. Fine book, dust jacket with only very gentle toning to spine and flap folds. A nearly-fine copy. THOMISM: THE EARLY DISCIPLES OF THE ANGELIC DOCTOR First edition of this "bio-bibliographical" study of the early... More about Early Thomistic School

New York: Sheed and Ward, 1962. First edition. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. Faint toning to spine and front panel of bright, clean dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "AGAPE LIES AT THE HEART OF ALL BEING" First edition of Frederick Wilhelmsen's engaging attempt to comprehend the meaning of... More about The Metaphysics of Love